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Tag: social determinants of health

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How are health insurance plans approaching social determinants of health?

Sept. 25, 2020 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD

In some estimates, medical care accounts for approximately 11 percent of a person’s health and wellness; the rest is made up of individual behaviors as well as environmental factors.  When […]

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Bridging the health care inequality divide: Pandemic solutions

July 1, 2020 / By Melissa Clarke, MD

Today’s blog is co-authored by Angela Diop, ND, CHCIO, and Andrew Robie, MD, of Unity Health Care in Washington DC. Dr. Robie is Chief Medical Information Officer and a family […]

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The new triple threat: COVID-19, health disparities and high prices

June 29, 2020 / By Steve Delaronde

The intersection of a novel virus, health disparities across our communities and rising health care prices presents a formidable challenge to the U.S. health care system. COVID-19 is new, but […]

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CareMore and Aspire Health bring their successful whole person care to Medicaid

June 24, 2020 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD

Medicaid budgets are under extraordinary stress with increased enrollment, increased direct and indirect costs and declining state revenues. What can be done to mitigate these budgetary cliffs? Reducing unit prices […]

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Social determinants of health in the time of COVID-19

June 19, 2020 / By Amanda Steffon

It has been over 100 years since the 1918 flu pandemic spread across the globe. Although we cannot make a direct comparison between then and now, there are contributing factors […]

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AI Talk: Poverty, COVID-19 and satellites

June 5, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD

As the pandemic spread in March and April, the nation went into lockdown and the number of cases began to climb, one factor became patently obvious: poor and minority communities […]

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Serving the safety net community

May 13, 2020 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD

State budgets are often challenged by healthcare costs. An increasing number of states are exploring ways to reduce these costs through policies aimed at the intersection of healthcare costs and […]

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Investing in the health of communities

Feb. 10, 2020 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD

A 15 percent increase in value is a compelling reason for business and industry to consider investing in the health of communities. Another? How to reverse the trend of new […]

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Social determinants of health: The time has come

Jan. 31, 2020 / By Steve Delaronde

The realization that income, education and zip code have a significant impact on the health of a population has evolved over the past ten years and is now widely accepted. […]

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Moving to a whole person model of care

June 12, 2019 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD

We’re living in a time of paradox in health care. With the increasing capacity to identify people at risk for bad outcomes, some are exploring fascinating innovations in healthcare delivery, […]

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SDOH, ICD-10, and avoiding the M-word

May 6, 2019 / By Rhonda Butler

In my last blog, I recommended checking out excerpts from the March ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance meeting. Those excerpts were written proposals for ICD-10 codes describing SDOH (social determinants of […]

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How should we capture social determinants of health as coded data? CDC invites public comment on ICD-10 codes for SDOH

April 8, 2019 / By Rhonda Butler

I’ve got a two-part (maybe three-part) homework assignment for you: Read a pair of proposals for new ICD-10 codes, presented at the March C&M meeting. They are each two pages […]